Capitol City of Virginia

Grocery Advertisment circa 1901

Grocery Shoppping in Richmond

Richmond Dispatch Newspaper May 19, 1901

In trying to see what kind of day it was in Richmond for May 19th, 1901, I scoured the issue without finding any weather information (though a hailstorm was reported for the city of Roanoke on May 18, seriously damaging crops.) Front page news was about an upcoming gubernatorial voting event for May 23, a constitutional convention, a history of Phi Beta Kappa, and the work of a "colored mans Y. M. C. A." in RIchmond seeking to construct a building, noting one just completed the year before in Norfolk. [Also, to get a visual sense of the era, note this illustration of ladies fashion for 1901)